https://yunfeiren.com Yunfei Ren | Artist Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:24:56 +0000 https://yunfeiren.com en https://yunfeiren.com/22075367 Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:51:35 +0000 Yunfei Ren | Artist https://yunfeiren.com/22075367 https://yunfeiren.com/About Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:29:17 +0000 Yunfei Ren | Artist https://yunfeiren.com/About Yunfei Ren (b. 1987, Wuhan, China) works across painting, installation, and photography. Drawing from the visual languages of cartography, geography, and meteorology, his practice examines migration as a process of continual transformation: how memory is deposited, how identity shifts under pressure, how history accumulates not as narrative but as residue. Through layered fields of lines, symbols, and shifting forms, Ren builds spaces where geographies collapse into one another and time behaves like sediment. Memory here is not preserved but rewritten; identity not fixed but measured against coordinates that keep shifting. Ren earned his BA from Middlebury College and his MFA from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited at Smack Mellon, de Young Museum, FOR-SITE, and the Chinese Historical Society Museum, and written about in The Washington Post. ︎ Instagram&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;︎ Email &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ︎CV https://yunfeiren.com/38430050 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:21:41 +0000 Yunfei Ren | Artist https://yunfeiren.com/38430050 https://yunfeiren.com/As-the-Ground-Turned Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:23:04 +0000 Yunfei Ren | Artist https://yunfeiren.com/As-the-Ground-Turned AS THE GROUND TURNED 2026Acrylic, oil pastel, oil stick on canvas60 x 40 in <img width="2313" height="3350" width_o="2313" height_o="3350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/169f52d6b926cd82a9016f8ec542c7f6cd8afc158684815afa03958068b5755b/20260507_As-the-Ground-Turned_gallery_lowres.jpg" data-mid="249028164" border="0" 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https://yunfeiren.com/37710309 Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:14:56 +0000 Yunfei Ren | Artist https://yunfeiren.com/37710309 https://yunfeiren.com/Bodies-of-Water Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:24:56 +0000 Yunfei Ren | Artist https://yunfeiren.com/Bodies-of-Water BODIES OF WATER 2026Acrylic, ink, silver foil on canvas36 x 24 in <img width="1726" height="2500" width_o="1726" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37ee3ac16c14e965aa283ba0adac1af59f31d85d3d2cfb7fbffbe4b6b8122458/20260401_Bodies-of-Water_lowres.jpg" data-mid="249026957" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37ee3ac16c14e965aa283ba0adac1af59f31d85d3d2cfb7fbffbe4b6b8122458/20260401_Bodies-of-Water_lowres.jpg" /><img width="1787" height="1340" width_o="1787" height_o="1340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4710adc0131a37351ec147a341333b725f2431c1f454e1dd9af2f269df9ed38b/20260401_Bodies-of-Water_detail2_lowres.jpg" data-mid="249026959" border="0" data-scale="100" 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/> https://yunfeiren.com/copy Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:24:45 +0000 Yunfei Ren | Artist https://yunfeiren.com/copy https://yunfeiren.com/Before-Landfall Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:08:57 +0000 Yunfei Ren | Artist https://yunfeiren.com/Before-Landfall BEFORE LANDFALL 2026Acrylic on canvas36 x 24 in <img width="2000" height="2896" width_o="2000" height_o="2896" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36c315f64773cebe77fc6b64407131c728978003d5db8882a493d5adda839810/20260504_Prime-Meridian_lowres.jpg" data-mid="249025304" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36c315f64773cebe77fc6b64407131c728978003d5db8882a493d5adda839810/20260504_Prime-Meridian_lowres.jpg" /> <img width="2414" height="1811" width_o="2414" height_o="1811" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad2b5801db407d4b1c39759ad53d3c99adebe3fbc8c7cec77e0408143b679842/20260504_Before-Landfall_detail_lowres.jpg" data-mid="249025935" border="0" data-scale="84" 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location. Previously installed at Fort Mason in San Francisco and Stanford University, at Smack Mellon, the work was installed on a 24-foot-tall wall inside a former boiler house—an industrial space that once bore witness to waves of immigration and the rise and fall of industry in DUMBO. It gestures toward movement, connection, and change. The paper flutters in response to passing bodies, animated like waves, suggesting motion, loss, and longing. At Smack Mellon, it takes on an organic, vine-like shape, evoking renewal and the entanglements of memory. On view June 14–July 27, 2025 Curated by Pallavi SuranaSmack Mellon |&nbsp;92 Plymouth St. Brooklyn, NY 11201 More information <img width="1221" height="1656" width_o="1221" height_o="1656" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/344996611a68b6f67deeb9e4b8a2c9a9734590d2a4282a6c35205c9d62955424/250616EFrossard_RemainsToB_0689.jpg" data-mid="236087368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/344996611a68b6f67deeb9e4b8a2c9a9734590d2a4282a6c35205c9d62955424/250616EFrossard_RemainsToB_0689.jpg" /><img width="1656" height="1116" width_o="1656" height_o="1116" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e363a313fb9ff8d211e9fdd35a7f1c758732fe019eb3974eaa907398542e504/250616EFrossard_RemainsToB_0771.jpg" data-mid="236087370" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e363a313fb9ff8d211e9fdd35a7f1c758732fe019eb3974eaa907398542e504/250616EFrossard_RemainsToB_0771.jpg" /><img width="1656" height="1163" width_o="1656" height_o="1163" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/460f7dc57ab746c3e29f3e3aea1d6970930c920f51cf3cff951517bc4385e58e/250616EFrossard_RemainsToB_0658.jpg" data-mid="236087366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/460f7dc57ab746c3e29f3e3aea1d6970930c920f51cf3cff951517bc4385e58e/250616EFrossard_RemainsToB_0658.jpg" /><img width="1656" height="1640" width_o="1656" height_o="1640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6731cfde7949ed7516a8d0b52244da57f1804b0201b84932698a75b1a9d3a10d/250616EFrossard_RemainsToB_0684.jpg" data-mid="236087367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6731cfde7949ed7516a8d0b52244da57f1804b0201b84932698a75b1a9d3a10d/250616EFrossard_RemainsToB_0684.jpg" /><img width="1192" height="1656" width_o="1192" height_o="1656" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/098c185798215d541c5f98e5992f98b433302d00ded21fbc833b80035208149f/250616EFrossard_RemainsToB_0723.jpg" data-mid="236087369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/098c185798215d541c5f98e5992f98b433302d00ded21fbc833b80035208149f/250616EFrossard_RemainsToB_0723.jpg" /> &nbsp; Image courtesy of Smack Mellon. Photo by Etienne Frossard.